Man to stand trial in castration case

McKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) -- A man who police said posed as a doctor and performed a castration on a transgendered woman was ordered to stand trial, even though his attorney said the man did her a favor and that she didn't want him prosecuted.
Catherine Watson, 45, appeared ambivalent when McKeesport District Justice Thomas Brletic asked her if she wanted Doug Lenhart to be prosecuted.
"I don't want him to do this again. ... I don't think he's capable," Watson, weeping, said during Lenhart's preliminary hearing Monday. She said she nearly bled to death from the Sept. 12 procedure, which was performed on the dining room table of her McKeesport home in suburban Pittsburgh.
Though Watson didn't answer Brletic's question directly, Shanicka Kennedy, assistant district attorney for Allegheny County, said Watson's wishes were irrelevant because the state was prosecuting.